DEBORAH POTTER, guest anchor: In Los Angeles, a group of inner-city clergy, many of them inspired by veterans of the civil rights movement, are taking their ministries out of the pulpit and into the streets. Instead of only preaching to … More →

August 21, 2009

Read an excerpt and view a gallery of pictures from “How the Other Half Worships” by Camilo Jose Vergara. More →

July 14, 2006

Read more of Kelly Hudson’s interview with University of Chicago sociology professor Omar McRoberts about the suburbanization of black churches. More →

February 6, 2004

A growing black middle class and the lack of available land in cities are luring some African-American congregations to the suburbs, depriving their old neighborhoods of the ministries that had served them. More →

February 6, 2004